[mythtv-users] 2010 Mac Mini?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Mon Jul 19 23:36:06 UTC 2010


On Monday, July 19, 2010 04:48:26 pm Ken Mandelberg wrote:
> The ATOM/ION mini boxes suggested are intriguing. However, I didn't see
> a firewire on any so far.
> 
> I use the mini as a backend and frontend. My video sources are an
> HDHomerun for clear QAM, and a firewire to a Comcast box for encrypted QAM.
> 
> Besides the firewire issue, is the a dual atom enough to handle
> recording 3 or 4 streams at once? Is it powerful enough for commercial
> marking?

Recording generally takes little or no CPU, since the streams are already encoded by the broadcaster or an HD-PVR, it's 
really just a question of disk I/O.

Several folks here are running Atoms as combo FE/BEs and say they work, as far as transcoding or commflagging I guess it 
would depend on how much of a hurry you were in for the results.


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